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Jamie, Kat, Lisa, Justin & John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We had fun Thursday night at dinner with our A-100 (Foreign Service orientation) colleagues Justin and Jamie. We were happy to see Justin and his wife Lisa while they were in town from their post in Santiago for a conference. It was fun to catch up and laugh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday John and I played tourist and took a group tour to Tigre, which is about 30 km from Buenos Aires. We boarded a boat not too far from our apartment in Puerto Madero, and navigated up the Rio de Plata to the canals of Tigre – it was fun to see the houses in the canals and watch the various boats deliver services to them (like the supermarket boat) – you can only reach their houses by water. We docked at the mainland, had an empanada lunch, then went to a bustling market. We returned to Buenos Aires by bus, stopping at a cathedral and handicrafts market on the way home. It was super-touristy, but we really enjoyed it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today John took me to lunch at Fervor, an \u201cold-school\u201d restaurant that we really enjoyed. The drizzle had stopped by the time we finished lunch, so we drove over to San Telmo and walked through the Sunday flea market – very fun. When we got back home, I had a video chat with Ann, Pam, and Jackie, then John and I chatted with our good friend Rick from his TDY location in Casablanca. Great to catch up with everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to see photos from our trip to Puerto Valle<\/a>! Here are a few, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Funny capybaras – they are BIG!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the estuary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sundown in the estuary – it looks like a moonscape!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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John watching the Yerba mate production<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Driveway into the lodge – a bamboo cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Howler monkeys on the river!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marsh deer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beginning of sunset in the estuary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Relaxing on our porch looking at the Parana River – not too shabby!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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We had fun Thursday night at dinner with our A-100 (Foreign Service orientation) colleagues Justin and Jamie. We were happy to see Justin and his wife Lisa while they were in town from their post in Santiago for a conference. It was fun to catch up and laugh! Yesterday John and I played tourist and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7073,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions\/7073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}